ABOUT THE BOOK
I grew to love trees while growing up in upstate New
York. Our house was surrounded by large maples, and I always
enjoyed visiting old trees while hiking the Appalachian Trail and
during trips to California and South America.

I became inspired to write Sacred Trees while
meditating in a grove of yellow beech trees in southern Chile.
The book acknowledges the central role that three have played in
the survival of humanity and in the growth of nearly all of the
world's civilizations. In writing the book, I was able to draw
from the history and myth of dozens of world cultures, including
the cosmic trees of the Norse and Iroquois, as well as trees of
knowledge, ancestral trees, trees of healing, and trees as
providers. It also shows how we can work with sacred trees to
gain wisdom and healing, and how to plant a sacred grove. The
book also contains dozens of beautiful illustrations of trees,
most of them taken from old woodcuts, photographs and paintings.
First published by Sierra Club Books in 1994, an expanded edition
(containing practical information on how we can commune with
sacred trees and protect them from harm) was released in August
2000 by Sterling Publishing, Inc.Nathaniel
Altman

NATHANIEL ALTMAN was born in 1948 in New
York City, and was raised in the small town of Putnam Valley, New
York. He studied at the University de los Andes in Bogota,
Colombia and the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he
graduated in 1971. After college, he wrote his first book,
Eating for Life: A Book about Vegetarianism. Since that
time he has written or co-authored over fifteen other books on
holistic health, diet, nature, palmistry and other metaphysical
subjects.
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